In Praise Of Tacos: Taco Zine Release Party At Tamale House East

May 22

posted by RL Reeves Jr in Austin Food Scene

Will Austin's Taco Zine set the stage for the comeback of the zine form? Back in the 90s everybody had a zine. There were fried chicken zines, rollerderby zines, satanism zines, dockhand zines, kickboxing zines...you name it. If you had access to a Kinkos and a little creativity you probably had a zine.

Hey Hey Buffet and Twistworthy were two of our favorite Austin zines from days of yore.

Zines were the forebears to the blogs of today.

Now Austin has a brand new entrant in the faded category: Taco Zine. Print media. Quaint? We're withholding judgement til we can get our hands on one.

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Free Meat! Micklethwait Craft Meats Vending Free Barbecue At BookPeople For Prophets Of Smoked Meat

May 22

posted by RL Reeves Jr in Barbecue

Tonight, Micklethwait Craft Meats will be at the Daniel Vaughn book signing party at BookPeople on North Lamar with a trailer load of free barbecue for attendees.

BookPeople plays hardball so be aware that if you bring a pirated copy of Prophets of Smoked Meat on their property, a few of their rangy book sellers will drag you out back and give you a good old fashioned Texas dry-gulching.

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Recipe: The World's Best Banana Pistachio Tea Bread

May 20

posted by RL Reeves Jr in Recipes, Dessert

I've spent the last 15 years lining up secret cooking weapons across the USA. Bourbon barrel aged vanilla is my latest treasure.

At the dawn of my cooking career, I pulled down my grits and greens money via working as an overnight baker in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Heartbreaker. Tumblr Sold To Yahoo

May 20

posted by RL Reeves Jr in Can't Be Categorized

Heartbreaking news from the world of high finance and micro-blogging. Tumblr has been sold by founder David Karp to the Yahoo.

Things will never be the same.

For the uninitiated, Tumblr is the wild, wild west of blogging. To some folks it's a photo-blogging platform, others use it as a diary a la Livejournal, and of course there are plenty people who use it to post lol cats and nudie pics from days of yore.

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Top 5 Scrumptious Chef Articles This Week: Texas Barbecue And Hamburgers

May 20

posted by RL Reeves Jr in Austin Food Scene

Scrumptious Chef shattered all of our previous site traffic records this past week. Hat tip to Texas Monthly (great looking new site btw) and their peripatetic barbecue work. Sounded like a sweet ride.

Over nearly 4 years this is the 1st week that only 2 topics dominated our top 5 most visited articles. Y'all love barbecue and hamburgers apparently.

Without further ado: Our weekly top 5.

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Austin Texas: American Craft Beer Week 2013 Part Five

May 17

posted by RL Reeves Jr in Austin Craft Beer

Austin will be awakening from a drunken, craft beer-induced stupor come Monday morning wondering what in the hell just happened.

Nightly bacchanals have been thrown across the city as our town's bars all clamored for a finite drinking dollar. We celebrated, as is our custom, on the front porch.

Day 5 looks especially promising. Whip In, down on southbound I-35, is tapping a cask of Lupulus, a hoppy Belgian Tripel, from Independence Brewing at 420 pm. The man on the phone wasn't sure if it would be 3-4 dollars. Either way. 1950 Hwy 35 S

Grab a six pack of Fireman #4 for $6.99 at E.1st Grocery 1811 E. Cesar Chavez and hit Micklethwait Craft Meats for their 5 month anniversary party 1309 Rosewood Ave

Full Texas craft beer coverage http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/Austin-Cr

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One Year Ago Today: Murder In Williamson County

May 17

posted by RL Reeves Jr in Out Of The Past

When we were conceptualizing this blog 5 years ago, we volleyed a lot of ideas back and forth. One of the earliest renditions, which got voted out, was a website devoted to crime and food. RL loved the idea, everybody else hated it.

It got voted down.

But every now and again, we'll author an article about the death and destruction that surrounds our fair city on a daily basis.

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This Week In Austin Texas Food Blogs: WuWu Sushi, Fried Baloney, Stubb's BBQ, Teji's, Fabio Viviani

May 17

posted by RL Reeves Jr in Austin Texas Food Blogs

That was a wild one. This weekly round-up of the finest Austin food blogs has been a real pleasure. This week's edition could've been a top 20 as our town's writers swung into overdrive with dozens of high quality posts. Spring fever? We're not sure.

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Best Breakfast Taco In Austin. Thrillist: Tamale House East,Taco Joint, Mi Madre's,Juan In A Million

May 17

posted by RL Reeves Jr in Austin Food Scene

Thrillist is hosting an Austin, Texas breakfast taco battle on their website.

The combatants: Tamale House East, Taco Joint, Mi Madre's and Juan In A Million.

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Crimes Against Texas Barbecue: Top 5 Smoked Meat Joints That Missed The 2013 Texas Monthly Top 50

May 16

posted by RL Reeves Jr in Barbecue

The hue and cry of Smitty's in Lockhart, Texas being left off the Texas Monthly Top 50 is baffling.

If you eat with your eyes then yes, the old smokehouse would be in the number one position. There is none finer. But the meat is routinely tough, underseasoned and rushed off the pit before it even approaches being servable.

Dodging the big fire on the floor in the meat room is easily the best part of the experience at Smitty's.

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2013 Texas Monthly BBQ Top Fifty: Franklin Barbecue Is Number One

May 16

posted by RL Reeves Jr in Barbecue

We expect Alto Shaam sales to skyrocket in the wake of Franklin Barbecue's victory in the battle for ascendancy in the world of Texas barbecue.

You got to keep the meat hot for service, and there is no finer way to accomplish this than through the use of the almighty kitchen appliance, the Alto Shaam.

Put to good use each day at Franklin.

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